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The New Forest

by John R. Wise

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Author
Wise, John R. (John Richard), 1831-1890
Title
The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery
Credits
Produced by Charlene Taylor, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
Subject
New Forest (England : Forest)
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 54144
Release Date
February 9, 2017
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE NEW FOREST: ITS History and its Scenery.
  2. 2.CONTENTS.
  3. 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  4. 4.PREFACE. — PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. — THE NEW FOREST: ITS History and its Scenery. — THE NEW FOREST.
  5. 5.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
  6. 6.CHAPTER II. ITS SCENERY.
  7. 7.CHAPTER III. ITS EARLY HISTORY.
  8. 8.CHAPTER IV. ITS LATER HISTORY.
  9. 9.CHAPTER V. CALSHOT CASTLE AND THE OLD SOUTH-EASTERN COAST.
  10. 10.CHAPTER VI. BEAULIEU ABBEY.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VII. THE SOUTH-WESTERN PART—BROCKENHURST, BOLDRE, SWAY, HINCHELSEA, AND BURLEY.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. THE CENTRAL PART—LYNDHURST.
  13. 13.CHAPTER IX. MINESTEAD AND RUFUS’S STONE.
  14. 14.CHAPTER X. THE NORTHERN PART.—STONEY-CROSS, BRAMBLE HILL, FRITHAM, BENTLEY, EYEWORTH, SLODEN.
  15. 15.CHAPTER XI. THE VALLEY OF THE AVON.—FORDINGBRIDGE, CHARFORD, BREAMORE, IBBESLEY, ELLINGHAM, RINGWOOD, SOPLEY.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XII. THE VALLEY OF THE AVON CONTINUED.—TYRREL’S FORD, SOPLEY, AND WINKTON.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. CHRISTCHURCH.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. THE OLD SOUTH-WESTERN SEA-COAST—SOMERFORD, CHEWTON GLEN, MILFORD, HURST CASTLE, LYMINGTON.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XV. THE GIPSY AND THE WEST-SAXON.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVI. THE FOLK-LORE AND PROVINCIALISMS.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVII. THE BARROWS.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII. THE ROMAN AND ROMANO-BRITISH POTTERIES.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XIX. PARISH REGISTERS AND CHURCHWARDENS’ BOOKS.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XX. THE GEOLOGY.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXI. THE BOTANY.—THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXII. THE ORNITHOLOGY.
  27. 27.APPENDICES.
  28. 28.APPENDIX I. A GLOSSARY OF SOME OF THE PROVINCIALISMS USED IN THE NEW FOREST.
  29. 29.APPENDIX II. THE FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE NEW FOREST DISTRICT.
  30. 30.APPENDIX III. LIST OF THE BIRDS OF THE NEW FOREST DISTRICT.
  31. 31.APPENDIX IV. THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE NEW FOREST. — RHOPALOCERA. — SPHENGINA. — BOMBYCINA. — PSYCHIDÆ. — NOCTUINA. — GEOMETRINA. — PYRALIDINA. — DELTOIDES. — PYRALITES. — CRAMBITES. — TORTRICINA. — PTEROPHORINA. — Postscript.
  32. 32.INDEX.
  33. 33.FOOTNOTES — MR. RUSKIN’S WORKS.
  34. 34.Transcriber’s Notes

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